Tag: HP

I noticed today that when in the VMWare Update Manager in admin view, some of the custom VIBs I had in were showing as “Not Connected”. This was my custom location for HP VIBs of http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml as I use the HP image on the hosts in this vCenter. When I forced VUM to check the URL again, it was coming back again as “Not Connected”. So I thought I would try loading the XML file in a browser, which presented me with this lovely little “notification”;

I say “notification” as what they’ve done is use a redirect to point you to a different URL, which then contains the message that you must use a different URL now.
The new HP VIB URL is https://vibsdepot.hpe.com/index.xml and note the https rather than http.

Adding the new updated URL to the XML file get’s us right back into a connected state;

This has obviously been done following the HP and HPE split that was announced a few years ago, but which is obviously just starting to have consequences for things like this.

While I was trying to update an iLO from version 2.00 to 2.27 on a HP DL360 G6, I was seeing the firmware update fail in Windows, the error back was that the hardware installed in the server was incorrect. Installing the firmware through the iLO web page itself just failed, appearing to timeout when attempting to upload the image.

The fix for this, oddly enough was to use Firefox. When doing the same update to the iLO in Firefox, the image does get uploaded and the firmware update then completed without any problems.